People, may 18, 1959

Some 50,000 U.S. citizens, attending 66 celebrations across the nation
(top tariff: $100 a plate), paid high tribute to Harry Truman on his
75th birthday. The No. 1 dinner, linked up with 15 other parties by a
closed-circuit TV network, took place at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria,
where about 2,000 Democratic Party faithfulplus a smattering of
G.O.P. well-wishers heard their jaunty birthday boy josh and rejoin
in top form. From Detroit, Eleanor Roosevelt declared that "the
character of my friend was proved on that terrible day [when F.D.R.
died] . . . Later I thrilled to watch him grow to greatness." Monsignor
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